M 5.6 in Kermadec Islands Region on 10 May 2019 03:23 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1179058
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -28.6866 , -176.764
Event Date: 10 May 2019 03:23 UTC
09 May 2019 15:23 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 May 2019 03:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70003j5p Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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5.7 magnitude quake jolts New Zealand's Kermadec IslandsSun, 12 May 2019 04:20:00 +0200.

An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter Scale rattled New Zealand's Kermadec Islands in the early morning hours on Monday, the (USGS) said. The quake hit a depth of 73 km and took place at 4:06 am (local time) or 4:06 pm (UTC time), the
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),